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...legendary coach Joe Restic and the Harvard football team began preparations for the 1974 season, uncertainty abounded. After the departure of All-Ivy quarterback Jim Stoeckel ’74, the team was forced to rely on the wiry frame of untested senior Milt Holt, an eccentric southpaw signal-caller with almost no varsity experience...
...Milt could be the most exciting quarterback we’ve had here,” Restic once told the Harvard Football News of Holt’s unpredictable nature. “And I mean that both ways—he can be very good or very...
Finally, with 15 seconds on the clock and the ball lying on the Yale one-half yard line, Restic called timeout. But rather than send out the field goal unit to get the win and the share of the Ivy title, he showed the ultimate confidence in his rookie quarterback, keeping the ball in his hands. Pineapple Milt did his coach proud, running around left end and diving into the end zone for a touchdown that put Harvard on top for good—and ruined a stunned Yale’s unbeaten season...
With his 212-yard, two-touchdown passing day, Holt had cemented himself as the Crimson’s single-season record-holder both in passing yards, with 1,351, and passing touchdowns with 16. In just one season, Holt had catapulted himself from career backup to All-Ivy quarterback, an amazing ascent that would ultimately land him in the Harvard Varsity Club Hall of Fame...
Nevertheless, if current Hawaiian quarterback Neil Rose—who already owns both single-season records that Holt once held—finds himself leading the Crimson into the closed end of the Stadium in the waning moments of Saturday’s Game, he may want to stop and think twice about the path he’s on. We’ve seen where it leads...